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  Former Principal Bertie Simmons Writes a Memoir About Racism, Resiliency and 58 Years With HISD

  October 16 at 8:31 a.m.

  According to Bertie Simmons, the legendary principal who was sent home from Furr High School in October 2017 by Houston ISD officials, when it came time to work out the last details of her settlement with HISD she was asked to sign a statement promising that she wouldn’t say anything...

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  Authors of Stevie Ray Vaughan Book Open the Gates to a Texas Flood

  October 8 at 4 a.m.

  It’s October 3 when Alan Paul and Andy Aledort – co-authors of the new biography Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan – are on the phone. The date is appropriate because it would have been the 65th birthday of the book’s subject, had he not died tragically...

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  Shea Serrano on Carpooling, Hardcovers (and Other Things)

  October 8 at 4 a.m.

  Shea Serrano spent a lot of time working on his new book, and he really wants you – yes, you – to buy a copy. “These books take me about two years from the time they’re sold until the time they come out,” The New York Times best-selling author says...

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  Debbie Harry - and "Blondie" - Both Have a Say in Memoir

  September 27 at 4 a.m.

  Face It By Debbie Harry 368 pp. $32.50 Dey Street Books As the front woman of Blondie, Debbie Harry combined both vixenish sexuality and a tough, take-no-shit attitude, captured in concert and videos. And they had massive hits with songs like “Heart of Glass,” “Rapture,” “The Tide is High,” “Call...

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  Run For Your Lives! Something Bad is Coming! I Saw/Read/Heard About It!

  September 23 at 5 a.m.

  The Martians Have Landed! A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes By Robert E. Bartholomew and Benjamin Radford 250 pp. $29.95 McFarland On the evening of October 30, 1938, an Indiana women burst into her local church in full panic mode. “New York destroyed! It’s the end of the world!”...

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  Steve Gorman's Explosive Memoir Tells Wayward Flight of the Black Crowes

  September 18 at 5 a.m.

  Through the entire career of the Black Crowes — from when they were known as Mr. Crowe’s Garden, to their 1990 hit debut record Shake Your Moneymaker, up until their last (and seemingly final) live show in December 2013 – even their most diehard fans have had a lot of...